Italian poet, journalist, novelist and dramatist. He is a controversial figure due to his influence on the Italian Fascist movement and his strong influence on the ideology of Benito Mussolini; although he never became directly involved in fascist government politics in Italy.

In his honour, the Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga took the first name of her pseudonym, Gabriela Mistral.

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Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and occasional translator. He was among the first genuine working-class writers in Hungarian literature. Self-taught, he became a writer within the socialist movement and published journals important to the radical intellectual culture of Budapest in the early 1900s. Although he cannot be fully identified with any single avant-garde movement, he adopted elements of expressionism, futurism and dadaism.

English Jacobean playwright. It is believed that he produced forty-two plays, half of which were in collaboration with other playwrights, including William Shakespeare and Philip Massinger. Only nine of his works were published during his lifetime.

Polish novelist, who is regard by many critics as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, despite his not having learned to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties. He became a naturalized British subject in 1886.
He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical setting, that depicted the heroism of faith before the imperatives of duty, social responsibility and honor. Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature.
Conrad's novels and stories have also inspired such films as Sabotage (1936, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Conrad's The Secret Agent) and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979, adapted from Conrad's Heart of Darkness…